17.10.17

SARS an armed gang of APC – Rivers government

The Rivers State Government has said it was not helpless in its
continuous call for the redeployment of the Commander of the Special
Anti Robbery Squad in the State, CSP Akin Fakorede.
The State’s Commissioner for Information, Emma Okah while briefing
newsmen in Port Harcourt, however, said the state government will not
relent in its call for Fakorede to be removed.

Okah called the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari to the
activities of SARS in Rivers, accusing it of distracting governance in
the State.
The Information Commissioner also noted that the state government had
enormous evidence to show that the SARS Commander was working for the
interest of the All Progressives Congress to create a crisis situation
and scare aware investors from Rivers state.
According to Okah, “It is on record that since 2015, the Rivers State
Government has been making calls for the investigation of the activities
of SARS and the sanctioning of its Commander in Rivers State but all
that fell on deaf ears.
“Rivers State Government had accused him and his men of organized
election rigging, extra judicial killings, armed robbery, kidnapping,
extortion, planting of incrimination evidence on innocent people or
their property, illegal arrest and detention, inhuman and degrading
treatment of innocent people and rape. We still stand on those
allegations and with all sense of responsibility; many of them have
increased in intensity.
“Above all, Rivers State Government insists that Mr Akin Fakorede is
running the armed wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers
State and his mission is to do two things.

“Firstly is to rig the last rerun elections in favour of the APC
which he has achieved successfully. Secondly, he is to perfect his
strategy to rig the 2019 general elections in Rivers State in favour of
his party and against the will of the people.
“In preparation for his second assignment, he is to use SARS to
disorganize the security architecture of the Rivers State and foist an
atmosphere of crime infestation and continuously cause security disorder
until the 2019 elections when he will do his final assignment and
deliver APC at all cost, no matter the number of people who may be
killed in the process. We dare say that Mr Akin Fakorede is a deeply
biased police officer whose continued stay in the police or in Rivers
State is a grave source of danger to the Nation, moreso when his bias is
laced with political and monetary consideration.”